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apparently, the air force has just finished testing an airborne ray gun created by lockheed-martin. that’s an AIRBORNE RAY GUN for those in the cheap seats. wtf

nice video for a song called prototype, by rex the dog. electro video (also, here’s a nice one the same dude did for aphex twin’s nannou )

good radio interview with the rza dropping knowledge. and for the shottas, here’s an internet stash of wu-tang lyrics

it’s a “kissing simulator,” where the goal is to kiss people to make them feel better. this makes a lot of sense

one of the best japanese game commercials i’ve seen in ages. i want this game p.s.(here’s more footage)

it’s an illustrated and superbly written short story about a man and his tapeworm. i’ve got a plan to make this into a feature film starring will ferrell and dave chapelle. pray for me

holy fucking robots. this is utterly bananas.

another interesting article from slate.com about videogames. “can a videogame be too hard?” this clive thompson guy is on point…a good read for gamers and lamers alike.

whatever happened to interactive fiction, anyway? (it dropped lots and lots of acid)
what the shit?

if you like stories about cats with hands, you’ll love this: scary movie

damn. peep the technique: shilo design. the “experimental works” are particularly mind-blowing.

so i went to a homeopathic doctor today to figure out what’s wrong with my mega-sensitive stomach, and she thinks i may have a parasite living inside of it. this was a bit disheartening, so i came home and did some research. here’s what i came up with:
the bad news: tapeworms are seriously the most fucked-up things in the universe
the good news: someone made a videogame about them
verdict: this sucks

a buyer’s guide to recreational brain scanning. what’s up the future.

question: where can i find about five billion videogame desktops for my domepiece? answer: here (in cartman voice: “now who wants to touch me?”)

the star wars kid’s triumphant return: peep his kill bill kung fu steez (this rules): star wars kid vs. kill bill

so you love outkast and you love 2D pixel art, particularly that of the street fighter variety. this should do the trick: street fighter vs. outkast

okay, remember what i said about the last website being really good? this one is about a million times better. i can’t believe how sick this is: the future

wow. easily one of the nicest websites i’ve seen. props to laboratory for making the world wide web its bizorch. hype

i’ve been eating lots of eggs lately. also avocados, vegetables, rice, fruit, meat, and cheese…but seriously lots of eggs. it got me thinking: you know on nature shows when they show the hyenas or the muskrats or whatever stealing and eating the eggs of birds when the bird is away from her nest collecting food? and how you’re totally hoping the bird gets back to its eggs before the hyena or the muskrat or whatever steals the eggs from her nest and eats them? it’s kinda fucked up that we have an entire billion-dollar industry in which the predators win that battle 100% of the time. (we’re doomed.)
on a happier note, i just farted and it smelled like rasberries, no joke.

a bunch of models playing with various forms of deli meats. honestly i’m not sure if this is worth your time, but it’s kinda weird so check it out if you’re really bored: meat aerobics
btw, did anyone see the recent south park with michael jackson? the one with the cops who spend their entire lives trying to frame rich black people for crimes they didn’t commit? holy funny.

the funkstorung website just got a nice redesign. funk/sto/rung

“Electronic Arts announced plans today to release a new game in the Sims series titled The Urbz for PS2, Xbox, Gamecube and the Game Boy Advance. The idea of the game is similar to The Sims, but with an inner-city bent — instead of competing for the nicest lawn and happiest lifestyle, your little guys (called Urbz) are fighting for street reputation and style. It’s the player’s goal to build up your street cred and become the very literal king of tow—” SHUT. THE. FUCK. UP.

thanks to slashdot for this little nugget of disturbingness: “An anonymous reader writes “Over at GameSpot, there’s an interview with Dr. Michael Macedonia of the U.S. Army about the AWE training sim, a ‘massively multiplayer simulation [based on the There ‘virtual world’ game engine] that will be used by military personnel to train troops in urban situations before they are airlifted to a battle zone.’ Macedonia says ‘We built downtown Baghdad in this environment’, and also says ‘we call our games tactical decision aids. Our thing is not making people shoot better; it’s making people think better.'”

so i just got home. not like SF home but like NY (parents) home. so far i’ve been here for like three hours and i’ve watched three hours of TV and eaten 35,000 lbs. of food. some things i’ve learned:
1. curb your enthusiasm is pretty funny, but not quite as shit-through-my-jeans funny as i thought it’d be. i’ll watch more though, maybe these weren’t the best episodes.
2. chris rock is a funny motherfucker. i’ve decided that jews and blacks are the funniest people, straight up. i think being oppressed/enslaved/exterminated leads to comedy gold. canadians are funny too. (not sure about the canadians though.)
3. i need a cat.

“abandonware” is commercial software that has been discontinued by the publisher and is not sold or supported anymore. this here site is a mecca for abandonware in the form of mac games, with such downloadable classics as doom 2, prince of persia, lemmings, leisure suit larry 6, and one of my favorite games of all time, indiana jones and the last crusade. hot shit, folks. free mac game smorgasbord